And yet did we not know that... only in the book, coming back to it unceasingly, drawing all our resources from it, could we indefinitely designate the writing beyond the book? - Jacques Derrida For Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), reading was an active process: he read texts by thinkers like Rousseau, Heidegger, Lévi-Strauss, Hegel, and Husserl with a writing utensil in hand. As Derrida affirmed in
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